Contents
Dedication 5
The Partridge Kite 7
About the author 108
PUBLISHING INFORMATION 109
For my wife Diana
The kite was flown at partridge shoots so that when the birds were flushed out by the beaters they would see above them the silhouette of a hawk and would fly low, making themselves easier targets for the guns.
From the Museum, Brympton D’Evercy House, Somerset